Malcolm was hoping to run the Welsh Athletics Commonwealth Games qualifying standard having been out for almost 18 months with an Achilles injury.

But his third place finish in heat one of the men’s 200m wasn’t enough to secure him a place in the final.

It will now be down to the selectors to decide whether 34-year-old Malcolm warrants a place in the Welsh team for Glasgow.

Sam Gordon won the men’s 200m (21.24 seconds) with training partner Dewi Hammond (21.39) taking silver in a reverse of Saturday’s 100m result. Another sprinter facing an agonising wait to find out if she will be selected is 16-year-old Hannah Brier, after she claimed her first senior 200m title.

The young Swansea Harrier clocked a Commonwealth Games ‘B’ standard of 23.54 in the heat but with an illegal tailwind.

She then ran marginally outside the ‘B’ standard it the final to win gold in 23.63.

Brier said: “It feels like such a big achievement because I am still only 16.

“I put everything into it to try and get the times for the Commonwealth Games.

“It’s so hard to know if it’s going to be enough to be selected, I’m just praying they take it into consideration.

“At the start of the season I wasn’t even thinking about the Commonwealth Games I just want to keep on running well and enjoying myself.

Tom Marshall (3.47.56) and Melissa Courtney (4.17.61) both produced brave performances in the 1500m as they chased Commonwealth Games standards but they just fell short of the times needed.

David Omoregie cruised to his first senior Welsh title with another personal best over the senior hurdles..

Already the joint fastest man in the world over the junior hurdles this year with France’s Wilhem Belocian with his British record time of 13.23 sec (Colin Jackson won the World Junior title in 1986 in 13.44 sec) he once again reiterated his decision not to try to double up at the World Juniors and the Commonwealth Games.

His winning time of 13.61 sec into a head wind earned him a second ‘B’ standard or Glasgow, but he has been told that if he accepts a place on the Welsh team for Scotland he will be de-selected for the British team heading to Oregon for the World Junior Championships.

“I was pretty happy with my time and I knew it was going to be good conditions because we were running into a head wind. I wanted another good time and that is a third pb over the senior hurdles,” said Omoregie.

“My target now is to medal in Oregon, but there are four of us who are around the same time and anything can happen at a championships event.”

The Championships ended on the track with a superb battle in the men’s 800m final where Joe Maynard came out on top (1.49.63) as he edged out Gareth Warburton (1.49.81) and Joe Thomas (1.50.42).

In the field, there were solid wins for two of our medal hopefuls in Glasgow as Brett Morse and Lee Doran claimed Welsh titles.

Doran took one throw at the Welsh Championships to prove he is rounding into shape to finally crack the 80 metre barrier he believes it will require to take a medal in Glasgow.

His title winning throw of 76.61 metres in the first round took him to the top of the current UK rankings and put him in line for a ticket to the Diamond League meeting in Glasgow prior to the Commonwealth Games.

“We’ve been told that whoever is the British No 1 will get an invite to throw in Glasgow and it will be great to get the chance to throw in the arena prior the Games. Nobody has thrown there yet, so it would be a big advantage,” said Doran, the British champion for the past three years.

“It is a big year with two major championships and I want to go to both. I know I am capable of throwing 80 metres and everything is being geared to do that at the British Championships. It is going to take that and more to win a medal in Glasgow, but I know I have it in me.”

Morse also underlined his status as Britain’s leading discus thrower as he retained his title with a season’s best 61.67 metres in the fourth round. One other throw surpassed 60 metres and three more were 59+.

Morse heads off to Rome this week for his second Diamond League match of the summer hoping to build on his success. He is looking to produce something closer to his Welsh record of 66.84 metres to really make his mark ahead of Glasgow.

“I’m more frustrated than worried that I haven’t been able to produce a big throw yet this summer. It is there in training, but I just wasn’t as sharp as I needed to be today,” he said.

“I need a good performance in Rome this week to ensure I get an invite to the Diamond League match in Glasgow ahead of the Commonwealth Games. I didn’t do myself justice in the first meeting in Doha, so Thursday is important.

“I know I’m ready to throw 64 or 65 metres, but this is the first season in my career that I have trained better than I have performed.”

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